Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporal Wix was the retired soldier who now worked for General Francis . |
| 2 | Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements . |
| 3 | Ballymena worked hard but it still was n't enough against a low-key Portadown side who only clicked into gear at the finish . |
| 4 | In the second half , Picksley , Mycoe , Plange and McAlister added touchdowns against outclassed opposition who never looked like getting into the contest . |
| 5 | Another outsider who probably arrived in the area under Gloucester 's aegis was Ralph Willoughby , a younger son of the Willoughbys of Wollaton ( Notts. ) , who acquired landed interests in East Anglia through marriage to the widow of Henry Castell of Raveningham ( Norf . ) . |
| 6 | Another outsider who probably arrived in the area under Gloucester 's aegis was Ralph Willoughby , a younger son of the Willoughbys of Wollaton ( Notts. ) , who acquired landed interests in East Anglia through marriage to the widow of Henry Castell of Raveningham ( Norf . ) . |
| 7 | Or , the Doctrine of the Sabbath ( 1649 ) ; the licence in this case granted by Joseph Caryl , a divine who frequently preached before the Long Parliament . |
| 8 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
| 9 | It is a tremendous achievement for the twenty-nine people of the department who all contributed towards the donation . |
| 10 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |
| 11 | Godoy , Prince of the Peace , was neither a reactionary nor a brutal tyrant ; indeed he was a mild progressive who consistently posed as the friend of enlightenment , earning for himself that hatred of priests and monks which contributed to his fall . |
| 12 | The professor who recently returned from an extended visit to Australia and New Zealand said he found very good examples in Australia of what not to do in the field of child welfare . |
| 13 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 14 | And I 'm left to wonder if a little of the sheen has gone from a club who once shone like burnished gold . |
| 15 | Only this managed to save him from the bullying which would otherwise visit a boy who practically lived within the works of Oscar Wilde . |
| 16 | Despite its eulogistic tone Oldershaw 's memory seems more credible than E. C. Bentley 's half-humorous , half-invented sketch of Thomas aged sixteen during his first half-year at St. Paul 's : ‘ It was Walker [ Frederick Walker , the High Master ] too , who had made this possible by clearing the ‘ History Eighth ’ , the first recruits to which included my friend Oldershaw and myself , soon to be joined by an exceptionally reserved and quiet boy who usually had in his pocket a rat or so , and a few snakes , which he would shut in his desk with books , and occasionally peep at stealthily — Edward Thomas the poet . ’ |
| 17 | The script mirrors the real-life case of a boy who recently succeeded in divorcing his mother in order to live with his foster parents . |
| 18 | We report a formerly healthy boy who suddenly died at 11 months after a Reye-like syndrome . |
| 19 | THE parents of a boy who suddenly withdrew into a silent world have been sent a message of support from the Queen . |
| 20 | Pictured with Anthony , ‘ the 1066 Man ’ , are Joe Durie , Rose Saliba from La Manga , David Crook — Marketing Communications Manager at Pilkington Glass , and Anne Noakes — the coach who actually rallied with Anthony . |
| 21 | Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term . |
| 22 | The firm was founded ten years ago by Mr Anderson , an investment consultant who once worked in the tea business , and ex-commodity broker Richard Illingworth , to provide Latin America with seed . |
| 23 | He was an overgrown child who never saw beyond his own narrow world . |
| 24 | In keeping with the rationale of the legislation , the effect of the House of Lords ruling was to make guilty a tippee who knowingly traded in shares on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information , regardless of how the information was obtained . |
| 25 | Even when Labour policy was close to CND 's , the party never had a spokesperson who wholeheartedly agreed with it . |
| 26 | Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house . |
| 27 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |
| 28 | Joan Halton is disturbed by an old guilt related to the underlying resentment and fury she felt in respect of her younger sister who always seemed to be allowed to come first . |
| 29 | Margery Kempe has been diagnosed as a case of religious hysteria who never recovered from puerperal fever , a victim of sexual repression , and as a hysterical personality who had psychotic episodes with pathological distortion of the sexual impulse . |
| 30 | The firm is headed by Steven Gluckstern , a financial wizard who previously worked for Salomon Brothers , a Wall Street firm , and Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway investment company . |